Miss Yasaka is busy doing something on her thing. Probably making money by buying low and selling high.

A thread for Kanako-sama? So soon?

Too soon perhaps.

She drank only one of the bottles of wine!
She drank TWO bottles of wine!

Drinking is good.

>>49215754 (OP)
A cute

We like Kanako!

>>49215754 (OP)
That's just what she wants you to think. She is 100% playing facebook games.

>>49215754 (OP)
She is making horny comments at impressionable young men and getting annoyed none of them want anything serious.

>>49216940
She's talking to the wrong impressionable young men. I'd easily get roped in.

>>49215754 (OP)
She's checking how many followers she has on twitter (New faith gathering scheme)

very busy indeed.

>>49219677
She'd probably have great takes on Shinto discourse on Twitter.

>>49219677
Is she verified?

>>49229489
she doesnt even know what it means.

>>49229518
Bigger numbers = better. I think she understands this.

We're gonna need more faith.

Wake up, Kanako-sama. Your break's over.

WELL I THINK KANAKO SUCKS

>>49238553
And she thinks you stink.

Kanako-sama...

>>49244427
The set of these ZUN-style pieces was really cute. Kanako especially looks her best in ZUN's style imo

>>49216940
What boy wants to date a super tall chubby hag with canonical back problems?

why does rinnosuke love her so much

>>49247146
He's got taste

>>49246935
Yeah, I keep saying it in every thread but there is not enough art of her that captures the magic of the original ZUNart.

Page 10? Really now?

I wish there were more art of Kanako wearing a business suit.

>>49255430
My deranged headcanon is that depictions of Kanako-sama in a business suit are an outside world human woman channeling Kanako-sama. She works for the Tourism Board of Nagano.

Page 8...Anon...don't tell me you're lacking in faith..?

Page 9...Anon...your lack of faith is really showing, Anon...She's gonna be VERY disapointed in you.

Simple solution is bring it to bump limit faster.

>>49260985
Sorry Kanako-sama. I've just been feeling quite lazy recently and I can't find the time to support my favorite god!

>>49261114
What a splendid idea!
>>49261576
You should pray to Kanako-sama for energy.

Page 9 AGAIN!!

Saving Private Kanako-sama

summer fun in the sun soon

Is her outfit her own, or did she take it from the old god?

>>49270755
Her current outfit was designed by ZUN. Well, to be honest, I still don't know if she is an old god in a new form or child or grandchild of old deities. Maybe she has always looked as she does these days.

>>49270902
For sure she'd have worn much more traditional clothes, but my question was more pointed towards, if Suwako used to rule Moriya shrine before Kanako beat her in battle, and if Suwako controls the Mishaguji and the shrine and it's god are associated with snakes, then wouldn't she have worn a lot of the accessories that Kanako wears? The mirror, the shimenawa ouroboros motif, etc.
It seems logical to me that those things pass to the current "ruler" of the shrine, and that Suwako simply gave them up to Kanako after losing. The mirror, at least, is besides being a common thing associated with kami in general, one of the things that the deity of Suwa is associated with, along with bells and saddles.

>>49270938
Now there's a god I'd worship

>>49270969
Everything considered it's pretty unlikely that the old deities were worshipped in something like the existing Moriya shrine. That style of shrine and ritual items and symbolism likely spread with the imperial cult as the Yamato culture conquered present-day Nagano. There is a possibility that there was some shared symbolism, practices and so on due to earlier cultural exchange, but we're talking about truly ancient conquest here.

Speaking of the imperial cult, did you know that 　 the middle kanji in Kanako's name (神奈子) is the kanji for Nara, the city that would have been the imperial capital when this conquest happened? The other two kanji are "kami" and "child". So her name has an additional layer of meaning that's like "Child of Nara's Kami".

There's been some theories that the mountain cult in Suwa was not a native thing but rather an adaptation of the worship of Mt. Miwa in Nara, and that Takeminataka would be a bunrei, divided spirit, of Mt. Miwa.

>>49273206
Makes sense. Granted I never thought about how much the worship of deities would differ in Japan before the dominance of a single culture came about, but it makes sense, given that even much later there were still regional differences in worship and differing quirks that wouldn't be removed until state shinto became a thing
Good catch on the name. I really like Kanako for this whole multi-layeredness that she has that you don't quite get with a lot of the other characters

>>49273361
I would say regional differences and quirks still very much persist based on what I've read. But yeah, certainly there was, perhaps still is, this kind of drive towards centralization. There's apparently some kind of a Shinto revival going on in Japan currently. Part of it is pretty shallow - a boom in goshuin collecting because they are nice to post on social media, but there's apparently been a spillover effect of people getting more interested in it for real. But neither the people nor institutions really know what to do with this. Part of this is also that a lot of Japanese people don't really know what to do or how to behave in shrines either. While Jinja Honcho does not really proselytize, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of new drive towards centralization via trying to propagate some kind of concencus about how to behave in shrines and what Shinto should be and offer to people.

But yeah. The Suwa lore is crazy deep and the more you look into it and the area the more bizarre how the Suwa are is like some kind of microcosm for Touhou. They got everything. The Yatsugatake mountains with their Tengu Peak is a stone's throw away. They have a shrine called Hokuto Jinja or Big Dipper Shrine bestled between two of the Suwa Taisha shrines. They got a weird flying boat sculpture. They even found one of those keyhole shaped kofun burial mounds nearby after the release of Wily Beast.

I also recently watched Kimi no Na Wa and the town in it is apparently based on Suwa. It was pretty remarkable how the plot was basicaly local kami arranges an incredibly convoluted body swap time travel plot to save the town.

Not only you haven't been looking in the mirror lately, you have let this thread slip to page 9 AGAIN. She is going to be VERY disapointed at this rate...

>>49255559
I want to see the stash of touhou offerings when I'm there

>>49279022
Same, feels like something that shouldn't happen. I can't think of a single parallel in Western culture. Like I'm pretty sure there's gotta be some religious place that had a tourism boom because of some work of fiction, but not like this.

>>49282348
Notre-Dame is the closest I can think of. It was a decaying old cathedral no Frenchman really cared enough to preserve, then that book about a hunchback was written...

Kanako-sama needs me?! Alright, I'll do it, Kanako-sama.
>>49282354
The difference is that, at least as far as I know, people don't leave Hunchback of Notre Dame merch at the Notre Dame.
It really is bizarre how much of that stuff is piled up there. Shrine staff find it awkward to remove it, and no one's just going to run up and take it.

>>49282354
Oh, I didn't actually know that, very interesting. >>49282600
I think it's that the merch is now technicaly an offering to the kami, but there is no protocol for dealing with it like how ofuda and ema are burned. I really wish some solution is found.

Anon, the mirror. Look into it.

HOLY SHIT SOMEONE TELL THEM TO GET OUT OF THE FRAME, AYA'S PLAYING SHOOT THE BULLET!

>>49289998
It's just a photo, anon, don't be so nervous.

She has some bullshit spellcards but the titledrop Mountain of Faith is always kino and still sometimes filters me.

Kanako-sama's popularity is slipping! It seems she's taking some desperate measures to rectify that, but should an old, ostensibly-dignified goddess really be doing this kind of thing..?

>>49294656
Kanako-sama is ultimately the kind of a deity that is tied to fertility of the land. How this "fertility" gets interpreted is really up to the eyes of the beholder these days.

Cute and canon wives.

So do you think Kanako-sama will be stage 1 boss in TH20 like Yuyuko was in 13, now that we are canonicaly going to the Youkai Mountain again?

A majestic goddess!

>>49298427
He cant do it again. He regretted it the first time

>>49298429
So true anon!
>>49299336
Did he really? First time I'm hearing this.

Kanako-sama needs to put some effort into saving her own threads herself, she can't just keep relying on worshipers all the time...

>>49305197
I was just about to post here...I think what she needs more is devout worshippers spread across different timezones...

Kanako-sama...

>>49308770
...is so cool!

>>49309309
This mountain goddess is just so great!

Useless virginal goddess.

>>49311123
USELESS?!
How rude... how could the great Kanako-sama possibly be "useless"?!

>>49215754 (OP)
oy vey thats a good deal.

>>49311192
Only the best deals on Tengu trading sites

>>49311190
“Useless” as in the term “useless lesbian.” She completely blue screens at the sign of any affection.

>>49311640
i trust that you're not calling kanakp a lesbo

>>49311123
She's anything but useless! I'm sure if you put your faith in her and allowed her in your life that you would see just how much she can do for all of those who can believe in her!

>>49311708
No. I’m using the term to clarify that “useless virginal goddess” means that Kanako.exe stops responding when you show her affection. She acts like an “ara ara” mommy, but she has no idea what to do with a man.

>>49314743
Hey now, she has a man. He's just sealed forever and missing all his limbs.

>>49314743
Oh, she absolutely knows what to do with a man! Here's her seven step program.

Step 1: Find a man who is Highly Responsive to Deities and in need of a new direction in his life

Step 2: Project divine visions of yourself untill he "picks up the phone"

Step 3: Strongly urge him to fix the relevant issues of his life in a strong but motherly way - men love this

Step 4: Offer to cultivate Qian, Heavenliness, within him so he will find the initiative, strenght and courage to do something about those problems

Step 5: Do a miracle like conjuring up a rain front shaped like a snake against two weeks of 0% chance of precipitation predictions over his city to make sure he understands just what he is dealing with.

Step 6: Keep your own end of the promise regarding that Qian thing and lend fragments of your power and wisdom when he needs it the most.

Step 7: Enjoy the undying gratidute and fervent faith of your newest devotee!

Kanako-sama is VERY disapointed in you! Not only did you let 4chan go under for ten days, you also didn't immediatedly bump her thread when it came back online! Do you think bumping idol threads or making a thread about drinking Remilia's pee is suitable behavior?? You didn't even climb the Mountain of Faith or look into the mirror, anon. You better make this all up for her and quickly!

Kanako-sama...

Ganbare, Kanako-sama!

Nooo Kanako don't fall off the board!

Don't forget to look at the mirror.

Page 11? Fate itself sides with Moriya Shrine.

>>49321801
YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE

>>49322192
I await the day I wake up in Gensokyo to fulfill my destiny!

>>49322362
Would a trip to Suwa be close enough in the meantime?

>>49326265
It couldn't hurt. I've never traveled to another country or overseas but what kind of chosen one would I be to turn tail in the face of adventure?

>>49327908
Let's pray you can go there while it's still possible.

>>49332045
Kanako-sama, please forgive us, I know it's frustrating how many of us tried and just could not bump this thread, but we tried our best!!!

>>49332045
KANAKO-SAMA NOOOOO!!!

She's so cool...

>>49336221
I want Kanako-sama to teach me everything she knows about warfare!

I want to slide down big hills on onbashira logs with Kanako-sama!

>>49338610
>>49338703
That's the spirit!!!!

>>49340633
Aiding Kanako-sama in her goals and learning from a divine being ought to be something all humans and youkai should do!

Smallnako.
Kanasmall.
Kanako Yasmall.
Smallnako Yasmall.

And another.

>>49341709
People on /jp/ are finally starting to get it..!

Kanako-sama...

Kanako-sama... are you sure that making dolphins do tricks through the shimenawa on your back is really going to bring in more faith?

There's no more faith to be gathered on 4/jp/...

>>49349815
after suwako-sama called her yasaka the baka nobody can respect her anymore. she will never recover. it's kanakover.

>>49349859
yasaka the baba...

>>49349868
this doesnt rhyme well as baka.

>>49349815
I'm sure there are a few who can still be reached out to..!

>>49349815
That's a defeatist mindset...!

Kanakoctopus

>>49355711
What did they mean by this?

>>49356305
kanako and iku are sisters. or maybe the same person? with a split personality?!

>>49356305
something something octopi were worshiped as snake gods something something

>>49356305
It means Sanae is getting abused at home. It was the first thing she imagined about the Kanaktopus.

>>49359141
Not being able to play videogames and watch anime all day isn't abuse no matter how much she cries

>>49359141
Now that's just pure slander!

Kanako-sama...

Have you been looking into the mirror lately, anon?

>>49367089
I look into her mirror whenever possible.

>>49370122
It's very good of you to be so self-reflective.

I love this snek hag

Even after all these newhus, these 3 solo all of them...

>>49373646
Of course, they're the best ones.

Page 8...is Kanako-sama getting forgotten because of Fossilized Wonders?

I want to make Kanako-sama proud!

>>49376265
weird because she's a fossil herself.

>>49376265
4chonks is broken in my browser and looks like a raw html page, no idea how to fix it, been that way since the site came back up. So I have been lacking in my faith on account of this place being ass to post on.
Gomenasorry Kanako-sama!
>>49378804
She's quite young you know! There's millennium maidens that are far more ancient than she.

>>49379814
>4chonks is broken in my browser and looks like a raw html page
maybe you can try to delete all the cookies and the chace.

>>49379814
Do you have an adblocker? Try disabling it for a second and refreshing the page, you might've manually blocked something relating to 4chan.

>>49378804
SUWAKO is the fossil!! Kanako-sama is practically a teenager in god years! She's young! She could've been Sanae's classmate and no one would've batted an eye!

>>49380586
lolibaba are young at heart.

Kanako-sama is eternally young, very real and extremely powerful so I'd be careful with the "hag" and "baba" posting...

I love young maidens

We love women of unspecified middle age here, don't we folks?

>>49384852

I'm Kanako-sama's top guy

Kanako-sama is already drunk again...

Kanako-sama...

I've heard it's a good thing to look at reflective surfaces.

Cute godess

>>49387102
It's more about the process of reflection, really.

Do Kanako Fans Dream of Summer Suwa?

>>49389207
That might be lost on some people. There's probably someone out there that thinks checking themselves out in her mirror is what she's asking them to do.

>>49390991
Really now? /jp/sies seem like pretty smart people to me?

Kanako-sama.

kanako says eat and drink and party hard.

the mountain holds many secrets

>>49397437
There's a side to Shinto that is a bit like that. Not all the time, but sometimes.
>>49397631
Fascinating...

>>49397631
So that's how she makes it all poofy.

Bump!

>>49401582
One of the secrets of the mountain is how to make your hair look big and poofy.

>>49401582
>>49404294
The huge hair in her original artwork is so good. Like a cloud on a mountaintop.

Bump kanako!

>>49408622
Rude picture.

Kanako-sama.

>>49409733
True. Anon should know that you don't just do that to a lady.

I'm not much of a Kanako fan, but I just woke up from a dream where I was visiting the Moriya Shrine and saw Kanako at the entrance, she was tall as fuck (something around 210 cm) and my face only reached up to her belly. I remember that she was wearing a red sweater for some reason and her hair was a bit longer. When i got near her i gave her a hug that lasted like 3 seconds and then ran away, after that, the dream turned into something completely different. This is the 5th time i dreamed about a 2hu and the first time dreaming about Kanako.

>>49416126
That's wonderful anon!

>>49416188
Kanako-sama, please stop prank calling people.

>>49416126
TALK TO HER YOU COWARD!

>>49417521
But... i'm not sure if i would like to get Kanako'd

>>49416726
It's not a prank call! It's an invitation.
>>49417953
Only good things would come from that.

>>49419165
>Only good things would come from that.
Like what?

>>49420934
Align yourself with her and enjoy the blessings of the Suwa kami.

If we can't call her a hag can we at least call her a middle aged woman?

>>49421846
You may call her mommy.

>>49422921
I already have a mom. That'd be awkward.

>>49423025
There’s a difference between a mother and a mommy.

>>49423884
Kanako is firmly in the mother category for me. You go to her to get advice, share a drink with, and get hugs; that kind of mom.
Mommy is too sexually charged for her. There's better 2hus for that sort of thing.

Kanako-sama can be a "mom" for you in the sense that deities can be kind of adults for adults. At some point your parents will run out of the kind of guidance they can give to you. Either you catch up to their life experience, the world becomes too different or then they die of old age. But Kanako-sama and her kin are something else, transcendent, ancient, but eternally young. She can teach you many things but there is one core teaching from which everything else flows from: you have to shed your skin or you will die.

Kanako-sama.

>>49428133
Kanako-mama!

>>49428240
Mother of winds and rains!

Are you ready to awaken the anciet power of snake, anon?

cant beat the snek

>>49432919
Certain illustrated literature has taught me that the "power of snake" is viper sake and it has incredible invigorating effects on the body.
More seriously: Your image looks interesting, is it actually a book of sorts or just a meme?

>>49432997
Yeah, it's a real book.

Kanako-sama is amazing!

>>49440184
Mountain gods are just so great!!!

Cuddling with Kanako and spoiling her until she has a charisma break!

>>49432919
>Are you ready to awaken the anciet power of snake, anon?
>Transformation
Kanako gonna steal your body and makes you his wife.

Do I have to look into HER mirror, or will any old mirror do?

>>49440492
What did you mean by this?
>>49442317
Any mirror is fine.

>>49444585
>What did you mean by this?
I may have gone too far in a couple places.

>>49444585
Is there such a thing as too many mirrors? Can I fill a room with mirrors to speed up my self reflection process?

>>49440492
>>49447073
Oh, I member that chinese girl story. Not my taste but I respect the effort.

Kanako-sama, give me rain!

>>49447073
Why?
>>49447148
Probably, attempting too hard will likely distort the process.
>>49447729
Unless you have her undivided attention you might want to do a bit more devoted prayer for it.

>>49450231
Jokes on you, it actually rained today. It was a thunderstorm, too.
Shit actually worked, suckerrr.

>>49451087
You should give her proper thanks then!

>>49454965
I'll express my gratitude to Moriya shrine, don't you worry.

Okay, Kanako-sama, you can stop now...
It's been raining non stop for 2 days... I didn't mean "give me rain for the rest of my life".

>>49457190
Kanako-sama might not be so formal about the specifics of prayer and worship, but I think you should maybe be a bit more formal and respectful about these things in the future...

>>49459872
Not true..

>>49464135
What isn't?

>>49459872
Well, I've learned my lesson...
The divine is truly frightening.

>>49464892
Good.

Kanako-sama.

Kanako-sama...

Forehead-sama...

>>49474266
That haircut is a disaster.

>>49475861
it's always like this with summer haircuts.

Kanako-sama.

>>49475861
Yeah. Such a bad look for her.

I started a new playthrough of TouhouTW with the attention of getting friendly with the tengu. But I accidentally Suwako and Kanako and now i'm living with them. Kanako recently pushed me down and I think it's all over for me from here on out.

>>49475861
I think its cute

>>49478746
She's glad you think so, anon. Maybe it's safest you keep thinking that way.

>>49478812
'Aight Kanako, Suwako and I tied so we gotta wipe it off and go again.

>>49478812
it is cute
I want to kiss her forehead

>>49478727
Is this "TouhouTW" again some sort of twisted form of worship...

>>49478812
Megamind

>>49478812
Imagine jizzing all over that forehead lmao

She looked even better IRL than in the games.

Kanako-sama.

>>49487995
Look at this dork trying to look cool

Kanako PLAPsaka

>>49489030
These twisted forms of worship are just getting weirder and dumber.

>>49490630
a clear insult to kanako's divinity and intelligence...

>>49490630
If she wants faith in the modern age then she's going to have to suck it up and adapt.

>>49491851
True...
>>49492265
If you have to be like that at least have the decency the imagine the amazon position.

>>49495570
Not sure if twisted interpretation of history or not.

People ought to respect Kanako-sama more, really... after all, she's done so much for everyone!
Don't ask what she's done. You don't need to know. What you need to know is that she's planning to do more. You just have to trust her. And buy her new merch.

>>49498509
Have you ever even asked for her help?

>>49498597
I operate by the principle of "ask not what Kanako-sama can do for you, ask what you can do for Kanako-sama".

>>49498628
It's a good principle but it can take a while to see that "she's done so much for everyone" part.

What's the bump to faithpoints™ transaction rate? I want to know how much I'm getting in return every time I bump Kanako's thread.

Kanako-sama?

>>49507778
She's sleeping right now. Please leave a message after the beep.

>>49416126
I had a dream about Kanako again. The only thing i remember about it is that i was spoiling her, telling her she was a very nice person while she looked very flustered. I think i'm slowly starting to like Kanako a bit more than before and that must be why i dreamed about her again.

I'm too drunk right now to stumble around my folders to find my Kanako folder and post an image. Imagine I posted a really cool one just now.

>>49478727
I wish she was translated.
Or has she? It's been a hot minute since I played

Kanako-sama...sorry for being absent in your thread for a while...

Damn it Kanako sama, get out of page 10

Kanako-sama...it won't be long for now...please wait for me warmly.

Do you think she taught Sanae that the best way to get a wife is to beat her up and force her to marry?

A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit

Kanako-sama!

Kanako-sama? Are you failing my bumps as a test of faith?

>>49535533
let's bless suwako-sama for this successful bump. kero kero.

>>49531877
>when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit
I feel like i'm on the cusp of getting this but not quite.

>>49539090
>when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit
probably works a little better.
The virtue of the old men is as that they toil in their lifetimes to make the lives of future generations easier, even if they'll never get to experience the fruits of their own labour.
But who cares about old men, this is a hag thread after all.

Fortune Teller-sama...

Around full moon now.

Kanako-sama...visiting the four shrines of Suwa Taisha has been one of the most unforgettable experiences of my whole life. It's wonderful to see how many people have been inspired to come to visit this beatiful place by you. All of Suwa feels alive, with roots that are deep and wide. Suwa has anything but "passed into fantasy". I have been awestruck by the natural beaty of the land, the taste of the food and the hospitality of the people. I will forever treasure these experiences and these newfound connections, and the shinpu of Suwa Taisha will allow me to do so. I will take it to a good and caring home. Thank you for inspiring me to come here and experience this all, Kanako-sama.

>>49546348
...care to share some cool pictures? Did you take any?

>>49546348
I had been to Japan before but never really wanted to live there like a lot of other otakus, until I went to Suwa.
It's really beautiful and have met a lot of friendly people.

This woman keeps showing her feet to me.

A nightly bump for Kanako-sama.

>>49546361
Sure, and of course I took a lot of them, though I guess coolness is in the eye of the beholder. Here's a shot of Maemiya. I felt it most strongly here, but photos really don't capture the essence of the place at all.
>>49547105
Incredible place, really. Hard to put my finger exactly on what it is with the place that does not invoke the kami, haha. The fact that it has so much nature there maybe makes the people more grounded I suppose. I suppose it also has more relaxed pace of life compared to something like Tokyo, and it's not suffering from overtourism either. Just incredible place.

Here's Maemiya from a bit less commonly seen angle. You can see how it acts like a mini nature preserve. The trees were full of birds and bugs and there was this constant droning, chirping sound surrounding the shrine. It was so localized to it that it sounded like the shrine itself was making the sound.

Here's some of the ancient trees that were around Maemiya. I have to say again that photos don't do these justice at all. They were absolutely enormous. Not just the trees, but these some vines which had grown on them, they were thicker than a man's arm. I've never seen anything like this.

Most relevant to the topic of the thread, in the cafe near Maemiya there was this ofuda-style artwork of Kanako-sama. It was delightful to see something like this, someone else too Really Gets It. The cafe itself was really wonderful, the owner was sweet and there's a direct view to the Maemiya from there. 100% worth the visit if you go there. Try the amazake, you're not gonna find it everywhere.

Very cool and interesting photos!!

>>49556104
Here's a shot of the main building of Honmiya. The shrine area of Honmiya has much more buildings, and it was much more popular among visitors. It felt like it was mostly filled with the energy of the various people...untill something special happened. I witnessed some kind of prayer ceremony being conducted. They did it at the main building, and you could see it really well. The priest read a prayer, made offerings, and then took hold of a golden gohei. It was a magical moment, like seeing someone pull out the Excalibur or something. He shook it, and it made a really loud bell-like noise, maybe it had bells attached to it too. It felt like the spiritual equivalent of opening the window in a room with stale air. A really magical moment to witness.

Kanako-sama.

Kanako-sama...I miss Suwa already...

Kanako-sama...I'll make sure to visit Suwa again.

>>49560348
>>49563300
>>49567839
Kanako-sama, please take this man's virginity already.

>>49568383
But Kanako is also a virgin, she isn't mentally prepared yet.

what do i have to do for moriya shrine to be taken to gensokyo

>>49568390
At her age?
How long until she IS mentally prepared?!

>>49569802
Give her 3700 more years

>>49568383
But anon...I know it's in poor taste to talk of these things, but I haven't been a virgin for years now...had we known years ago, and had she somehow wanted to take it from me, I would have of course surrendered my Precious Thing to her. Now, I would have nothing to give but an old pervert's lust. It's not good for people like me to think of her that way, you know? This is all very theoretical anyways.

Kanako-sama...

>>49574532
Kanako-mama...

>>49575423
The Suwa kami is endlessly life-giving, so I think it's fair enough to call her that.

>>49574532
Knak boobie

>>49576191
"Mountains of Faith" is funnier and more creative.

>>49580091

>>49580091
Kanako-yama.

>>49580091
Cute feet

>>49576178
Speaking of endless: stay a little longer, Kanako-sama!

>>49592648
Kanako-sama told me she doesn't like the attention of horny young men. You guys scared the pure Kanako-sama!

old, always drunk hag

>>49600044
eh, she could be worse.

>>49600057
I meant those as positives

>>49556104
mf got them Leonid Brezhnev eyebrows

Kanako-sama glow up...

>>49608367
looks weird

>>49608367
You'd never guess this artist is big into countryballs

I keep thinking about how wonderful Suwa was.

>>49608781
Tell us more.

>>49615450
Well, even for someone who would a more casual tourist, it's a really beatiful area. The lake was much bigger than I expected. There's a lot of mountains and forests. There's also good vantage points which let you see the surroundings much better.

There were a handful of foreign tourists around, but off-season it's not crowded at all, and you don't see the kind of bad effects of tourism you see in more popular places. There's no travel groups making a ruckus and acting like ass. This means that the locals also aren't exhausted with foreigners, something I kinda felt in couple other places at times.

If you go there in off-season (not in winter, not during the fireworks or matsuri) and engage with the locals in some way you're gonna have people who are curious as to why you've come there. This is probably even more true if you are interested in the local history and culture like I am. I had some of the best talks with locals I've had in Japan there, though the best was in Minakamiyama where a dude explained Japanese creation myths with mix of Japanese, English and gesturing.

But for me the absolute best part was going there and just feeling it. The moment I saw Maemiya, heard the chorus of insects, birds and frogs, so localized to the shrine it was as if it was the building itself making the noise, I really felt it. All shrines have this quality that is greater than the sum of it's parts, but it's just impossible to capture the sheer presence in there with words or pictures. In that moment I knew I hadn't come there after some pointless delusion or some trickery by something masquerading as the Suwa kami.

Later that night, when I was falling asleep, I saw myself from a bird's eye view, walking around Maemiya. I saw white snakes and golden mist and ancient tree roots and the lake surface stretching out. I saw myself as a baby in Kanako-sama's lap. I recognized it and it recognized me and it acknowledged me as the most distant, strangest blossom in Suwa's tree of life. After that, for the rest of the time spent in Suwa, I faintly felt it everywhere, in all the myriad little shrines and dosojin and jizo statues all over Suwa.

There's something unfathomably vast, alive and real there and if you open yourself to it you can become part of it. If you give it the respect it deserves it can lend you a fragment of it's power and it can teach you. It's lesson is perhaps the only one you ever need to really learn and it is: you have to shed your skin or you will die. But it's not some crushing obligation, it's a joy, a priviledge, you can and will shed your skin over and over again untill you become what you were meant to be.

You can do things you thought previously impossible. You can go from someone afraid of crowds and plane crashes and allergies and sudden cardiatric arrests, afraid of living, afraid of dying, into someone who can climb a mountain, of faith, and a literal one, and a year on from now, maybe even bigger mountains. And if circumstances don't allow it, it doesn't matter, because you can be born again, change course, adapt. And when the final transformation comes, be it tomorrow or decades from now, it will not be the end, just a reaping and tally of this life's harvest in preparation for the next one.

The fact this all happened because I started playing silly danmaku games with the funny looking girls and lore connected to distant mythologies is unbelievable, but reality truly is stranger than fiction. You just have to open yourself to life and let it change you, no matter how crazy or unlikely it is.

>>49615616
Beautiful.

it's her year but i feel she aint got more popular.

>>49628576
Well, can't do anything bout that, I suppose...

>>49628576
>>49633299
Her low popularity in Japan has always been mysterious to me.

>>49628576
How would Kanako-sama feel about being popular with old men instead of young adults?

>>49634177
I have heard that the average age of people interested and engaged in the Suwa faith is fairly high, but not sure if that's the type of popularity you are talking about.

And that's 300. Only a little bit left, Kanako-sama!

Tiny Kanakp a cute

Kanako-sama...

nyasaka kanyako

>>49637776
Ronako my beloved

>>49615616
Glad you had fun anon.

Sexsaka Sexnako

>>49649727
Yasexa

Ah, the God of Wind on the Grounds of the Divine Lake...

yusaka kanakkuri

oyasumi kanako-sama.